A few observations on PoA, by my son

1. The lead character, that prisoner of Azkaban? His name is Mysterious Black.

2. Alfonso Cuaron was the director *and* played the role of Mysterious Black.

3. The rat was the bad guy and killed Harry's parents, which means Voldemort didn't kill them.


Ah, the wisdom of the almost-five.

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Forgot sidekick plug. Am going offline for 18 hours.

:waves

Four quick things...

1. The PoA soundtrack is available from iTunes here but if you get it that way, you don't get the cool Director's Note and the screensavers and wallpapers and stuff that come with the CD. It's your call, but if all you want is the Frog Song, you can get Double Trouble for 99 cents if you're an iTunes kind of person. Whee.

2. I haven't posted my review of PoA (****1/2 out of 5) yet because melissa_tlc is checking to see if our reviews are officially being held to an embargo date. It would seem kind of weird, given the Really Large Set of Previews in the last 55 hours, but we don't want to unnecessarily irk the Nice People Who Gave Us Tickets. So it will be up soon, and there will be comments about the moustache and the thundering impact of subtlety. Again, whee.

3. Husband did not bring home ROTK for me. He brought home West Wing Season Two for himself. Am irked and will retire to watch Love Actually again, instead.

I would've bought it for myself at supermarket, where they had it, but they only had fullscreen, and as we all know from The Onion's Holiday Issue last December, nobody wants fullscreen. ;)

4. Congrats to awelkin, one of the two new members of the board of HP Education Fanon, the entity behind Nimbus (and also working with _witchinghour_ in 2005 and Lumos Las Vegas in 2006 (which I think should be sung to Viva Las Vegas. The other new board member is Phillip Nel, who's also a professor - he's written a lot about Harry Potter and other children's and YA lit, and presented on two panels at Nimbus.

Only nine more sleeps before I'm back in NYC! Yet again, we say WHEEE!